Heat treatment is the process of heating and cooling metals to enhance certain properties in the material. Heat treatment is used to prepare ferrous and nonferrous metals for usage in space, defence and automotive applications. Metallurgists are continuously working to improve the outcomes and cost efficiency of these processes. For this purpose, they develop new timetables or cycles to supply a variety of grades. Each schedule indicates a different rate of heating, maintaining, and cooling the metal.
When these techniques are followed precisely, they may produce metals of different criteria with precise physical and chemical properties. HHV specializes in premium heat treatment furnaces that are built to operate automatically with complete heating, multi-point soaking and gas quenching cycles. Our vacuum furnaces provide high consistency and low contamination for annealing, hardening, ageing, and tempering.
The Advantages:
Heat treatment is performed for a variety of reasons. Some processes soften the metal, while others improve its hardness. The process can also be honed to have an impact on these materials' electrical and thermal conductivity.
Some Vacuum Heat Treatment Furnaces alleviate strains caused by previous cold working operations. Others give metals favorable chemical characteristics. The ideal process is determined by the type of material and the needed qualities.
A metal item may be subjected to many heat treatment processes. Some magnesium alloys used in the aviation manufacturing industries, for example, it may go up to six separate heat treatment processes to improve them for the purpose
The Process:
Heat treatment refers to the method of heating metal, keeping it at that degree, and then cooling it back down in a vacuum chamber. The process takes place in a vacuum chamber to ensure the least amount of contamination. Microstructure is vital in determining a material's mechanical characteristics. The mechanical characteristics of the metal item will vary during the process due to high temperature that changes the geometry of the metals.
The ultimate result is influenced by many factors like the time spent heating, the time spent holding the metal component at a particular temperature, the rate of cooling, the ambient conditions, and so on. The parameters are determined by the heat treatment process, metal type, and component size.
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HHV’s Thermal Systems division has five decades of expertise in the design, development and manufacturing of specialized vacuum furnaces for Space, Aerospace, Astrophysics, Defence, and Metallurgy industries. HHV is an international supplier of high quality vacuum furnaces. Our full-fledged design centre has qualified and experienced designers with 3D designing facilities to design systems with international standards adhering to NADCAP standards and certified for CE.
HHV's thermal system division manufactures vacuum heat treatment furnaces, vacuum brazing furnaces, diffusion bonding hot presses, vacuum induction melting and casting furnaces, CVD/CVI and graphitization furnaces, vacuum arc re-melting furnaces and a host of customized special equipment.
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